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Listeners, meanwhile, are free to sit back and imbibe the music.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026

Fewer people in the U.S. are drinking alcohol, and when they do imbibe, they drink less than they used to.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 23, 2025

An extremely light drinker, Yamamoto said that even the magnitude of this victory couldn’t drive him to imbibe any of the adult beverages provided to the players.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2024

Lactose added to a beer brew near the end just sits and waits for the actual drinker to imbibe it.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 8, 2023

“The sword can destroy Horcruxes! Goblin-made blades imbibe only that which strengthen them—Harry, that sword’s impregnated with basilisk venom!”

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

The nectar isn’t so potent that the plants catch every ant that imbibes; many of the insects are able to shrug off its effects and make it home to deliver the sweet treat.

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 29, 2023

In other words, Musk, who imbibes and regurgitates bad memes, has built a machine that is also designed to imbibe and regurgitate bad memes.

From Slate ● Nov. 7, 2023

It imbibes the illusion of omnipotence and wallows in self-adulation.

From Salon ● May 7, 2023

With a Bourdain-like gift for chatting up strangers and a willingness to disregard the gross factor, he imbibes traditional drinks from the familiar to the extreme while exploring the cultures that made the cocktails popular.

From Washington Post ● May 7, 2020

Water imbibes between 30 and 40 times its bulk of this air, and retains it when frozen.

From Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry by Joseph Priestley

Living within the system of slavery, enslaved and free people talked, traded goods, imbibed and celebrated.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

He used to work with the cousins' fathers: "They were amazing people who loved what they did and have imbibed their children with this altruistic behaviour."

From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2025

She was baptized into the Roman Catholic Church, from which she imbibed the lesson that a large religious institution could have ugliness in its past, but still do good in individual lives.

From New York Times ● May 22, 2024

There are gigantic sandworms to be mounted and surfed like waves, vials of blue goo to be imbibed for clarifying properties, yet “Dune: Part Two” fixes firmly on the idea of authenticity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2024

A girl with him smiled, tilted her head back, imbibed, laughed.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates

All of which is true but, for a book featuring Franklin and Washington happily imbibing on the cover, it’s a bit of a buzzkill.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026

Perhaps the reason is they really are too scared to go into the city, after imbibing years of lies that New York is a war zone.

From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2024

There’s a lot of people that are still suffering from anxiety and mental illness that are still imbibing dangerous conspiracy theories.

From Slate ● Apr. 3, 2023

Born in 1936 to a textile shop owner and a homemaker, Tanaami grew up during the United States occupation of Japan, imbibing a heavy dose of American culture.

From New York Times ● Oct. 7, 2022

Sometimes she neglected to ration her water, imbibing too much in the morning and staring with bitterness at the fountain the rest of the day.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead